Overview

Atlanta Heights Charter School is a public charter school serving kindergarten through 8th grade on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive on Atlanta's west side. NCES directory data records all 663 enrolled students as eligible for free lunch, indicating the school serves a predominantly low-income student population.

Academics

No independently verified Georgia state assessment data (via the College and Career Ready Performance Index) was located for this profile; check the Georgia Department of Education's site directly for current school-level results.

Neighborhood

The school is located on Atlanta's west side, in an area local crime-mapping sources describe as part of the city's "westside corridor" where crime is more concentrated relative to Atlanta's northern and intown neighborhoods.

Crime & safety

Citywide Atlanta crime data is elevated by most measures checked: one source describes the overall crime rate as 161% above the national average with a D safety grade, another puts the total crime rate at 117% above the national rate based on FBI data. Multiple sources agree crime is heavily concentrated by neighborhood, with the city's own westside corridor (which includes this school's general area) specifically named as one of the higher-crime parts of Atlanta, in contrast to safer northern and intown neighborhoods like Buckhead and Morningside. One source also reports the city has seen a significant mid-year crime decline in 2025, per Atlanta Police Department data.

Unlike several other schools in this directory where we couldn't confirm whether citywide crime data applied to the specific neighborhood, here multiple independent sources specifically identify this school's general area (the westside corridor) as a higher-crime part of the city relative to the Atlanta average -- this is a case where the citywide elevated-crime figures likely understate, rather than overstate, the local picture. We don't have a precise block-level figure, but the directional signal is more concerning here than the citywide average alone suggests.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score. Given the neighborhood-specific safety concerns noted above and the absence of verified academic data, we're not showing a calculated rating for this profile. See our ratings methodology.

Sources

  1. NCES Common Core of Data, School Search -- Atlanta Heights Charter School, 2024-25 school year.
  2. DoorProfit.com, Atlanta crime statistics, citing FBI UCR data, 2026.
  3. HomeSnacks.com, Atlanta crime report, citing FBI 2024 Uniform Crime Report data.
  4. CrimeAtlanta.com (Atlanta Crime Watch), neighborhood-level crime grading, citing Atlanta Police Department incident records and Census data, 2026.
  5. Atlanta Police Foundation, mid-year crime reduction report, 2025.